I hate to write the list about this but I'm not having much luck with keeping a default route after reboot. I was able to keep it with a statement in /etc/network/interfaces using route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0 metric 1 under Debian 2.1. With the upgrade to 2.2, this no longer works. Any help on where to place this statement would be a great help! Thanks Blair